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Alan Dettlaff Dec 12, 2022

Jadzia (The polish one)Dec 12, 2022

Hope everyone is having a great day. Remember that you're loved and ACAB

Alan Dettlaff Dec 12, 2022

If you’re interested in helping Vanessa Peoples, one of the mothers featured in last week’s CBS Sunday Morning, she now has a GoFundMe to help her and her children get back on their feet after the damage caused by CPS.
 If you’re able, you can help here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/nb2wut-help-vanessa-get-back-on-her-feet?member=23768885&utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet&utm_content=undefined&utm_medium=copy_link_all&utm_source=customer&utm_term=undefined

Alan Dettlaff Dec 11, 2022

Tune in to hear the Commissioner of New York’s Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) talk about the exciting new "pilot" his agency is about to begin that will allow parents to know what their rights are while being investigated. Seriously, this agency is so ridiculous...

https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2022/12/09/child-welfare-racism-nyc

After workers allege racism, the Commissioner of NYC's child welfare system addresses priorities | Here & Now

Black and Brown families have long believed that New York's child welfare system is racist. Now, a new survey shows some caseworkers on the inside agree.

WBUR

Alan Dettlaff Dec 8, 2022

"From 2015 to 2019...DCS investigated the family lives of 1 of every 3 Black children in Maricopa County."

This is not for the purpose of "protection." This is state-sanctioned violence against Black families.

#ChildWelfare #SocialWork #Abolition

https://www.propublica.org/article/for-black-families-in-phoenix-child-welfare-investigations-are-constant-threat

For Black Families in Phoenix, Child Welfare Investigations Are a Constant Threat

One in three Black children in Maricopa County, Arizona, faced a child welfare investigation over a five-year period, leaving many families in a state of dread. Some parents are pushing back.

ProPublica

Alan Dettlaff Dec 8, 2022

This is not to minimize the horrors of being caged and imprisoned for anyone and I am grateful to hear when anyone is freed from this. But there are tens of thousands of people who are caged and imprisoned for marijuana use in the US that also need to be freed. No one person is more important than any other.

Alan Dettlaff Dec 7, 2022

If you previously had any positive feelings about The New School, which is allegedly a school for "scholarly activists," you should stop having those feelings.

Alan Dettlaff Dec 6, 2022

“…the system puts parents, especially single mothers of color, in the impossible situation of having to overcome poverty in order to stop being monitored and to reunite with their children, without providing them the resources necessary to do so.”

#ChildWelfare #SocialWork #Abolition

https://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/Op-Ed/2022/12/05/cps-child-protective-services-welfare-poverty/stories/202212050007

Hina Naveed: The child welfare system targets the poor

When I graduated from nursing school five years ago, I worked for an agency in New York City’s foster care system. I believed I was helping families....

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Alan Dettlaff Dec 5, 2022

There is nothing surprising about the fact that the Administration for Children's Services in New York City tried to cover this up.

What remains a surprise is the continual claims by those who call themselves social work "scholars" that there is no problem with racism in the family policing system. Even when their own caseworkers say it's true, they continue to deny racism even exists...

#SocialWork #ChildWelfare #Abolition

https://gothamist.com/news/nyc-childrens-agency-buries-report-that-details-racial-bias-in-its-ranks

NYC children's agency buries report that details racial bias in its ranks

ACS workers themselves point to a racial double standard in how the agency treats Black and brown families versus white families.

Gothamist

Alan Dettlaff Dec 5, 2022

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NCCPR Dec 4, 2022

@alandettlaff
The second case example in the @cbsnews story reminds me of this @nytimes story - from 2003: https://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/19/nyregion/daily-choice-turned-deadly-children-left-on-their-own.html #childwelfare #fostercare #childabuse

Daily Choice Turned Deadly: Children Left on Their Own

Prosecution of Kim Brathwait, Brooklyn mother whose 9-year-old and 1-year-old children died in fire after she left them unattended to go to work, highlights situation faced by millions of American families that regularly leave young children alone for at least a few hours a week; state statutes typically set no age under 18 when child is legally considered old enough to stay home alone; parents are thus left with many case-by-case judgments, and prosecutors with vast discretion when something goes wrong; lawyer says Brathwaite, whose baby sitter failed to appear when she due to go to her new job as assistant manager at a McDonald's, is guilty of nothing more than being single mom working 12-huor shift; fire is believed to have been deliberately set, and arrest is expected; photo (M)

Alan Dettlaff Dec 4, 2022

ICYMI: Here is the full clip of CBS Sunday Morning’s story on the family policing system.
If you didn’t previously understand why many of us are calling for abolition, this piece tragically documents the pain and destruction this system causes families.
#ChildWelfare #SocialWork #abolition
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/when-the-system-fails-families-may-pay-the-ultimate-price/#x

When the system fails, families may pay the ultimate price

Critics say the policies of child welfare agencies, rather than acting for the benefit of children, in many cases harm families, by separating parent from child, bolstering a multi-billion-dollar foster care system, and creating legal barriers for families to reunite. Correspondent Erin Moriarty reports.

CBS News

The upEND Movement to abolish the family policing system	https://upendmovement.org
Abolitionist Perspectives in Social Work Journal	https://apsw-ojs-uh.tdl.org/apsw
Op-Ed on Ending Carceral Social Work	https://inquest.org/end-carceral-social-work/